Valtech

Global digital transformation and design consultancy

Platform Database Engineer

Database AdministrationConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeRemote in ColombiaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience as a MongoDB database administrator, including at least 4 years administering MongoDB Atlas.
Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem, including EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, and Lambda.
Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, continuous integration and continuous delivery automation, and containerized workloads using EKS/Kubernetes.
Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills in Python and Bash.
Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and incident response.
Ability to travel less than 10%.

Responsibilities

Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non-Atlas environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and security.
Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi-region failover.
Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all software development lifecycle phases.
Develop and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions using Terraform and GitOps for database provisioning and automation.
Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
Collaborate with application, DevOps, and platform teams to improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Lead incident response for database-related issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.
Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with Kafka, change data capture, and enterprise data integration platforms.
Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.

Platform Database Engineer

Location: Colombia – Remote

About the Role

The Platform Database Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, administering, and optimizing MongoDB (Atlas and on‑premise) within a large-scale, cloud-based enterprise ecosystem. This role blends deep database engineering expertise with SRE principles to ensure performance, reliability, scalability, and automation across mission‑critical data platforms.

What You Will Do

Architect, implement, and maintain MongoDB Atlas and non‑Atlas environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
Design and enforce resiliency and disaster recovery strategies, including backup, restore, and multi‑region failover.
Optimize database performance and query execution to support application development teams throughout all SDLC phases.
Develop and manage infrastructure‑as‑code solutions (Terraform, GitOps) for database provisioning and automation.
Implement and refine observability and monitoring solutions using Dynatrace, CloudWatch, and MongoDB native telemetry.
Manage access control, auditing, and encryption to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements.
Collaborate closely with application, DevOps, and platform teams to continuously improve reliability, performance, and operational excellence.
Lead incident response for database‑related issues, drive root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventative measures.
Mentor and guide technical teams, contributing to documentation, standards, and design reviews.

Minimum Qualifications

4+ years of experience as a MongoDB DBA, including 4+ years administering MongoDB Atlas.
Strong experience with the AWS ecosystem (EC2, EKS, CloudWatch, IAM, KMS, VPC, Lambda).
Proficiency in Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD automation, and containerized workloads (EKS/Kubernetes).
Experience with Dynatrace, Prometheus, or equivalent observability platforms.
Strong Linux administration expertise and scripting skills (Python, Bash).
Excellent analytical, communication, and documentation skills.
Ability to participate in on‑call rotation and incident response.
Travel requirement: <10%.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Kafka, CDC, and enterprise data integration platforms.
Familiarity with GitOps practices and infrastructure observability at enterprise scale.

About the Company

Valtech

Global digital transformation and design consultancy

Valtech is a global business transformation agency that offers digital strategy, design, and engineering services. It works by pairing strategic advisory with hands-on technology implementation to build and optimize digital experiences, platforms, and data-driven capabilities across areas like experience design, commerce, and data and AI. Valtech differentiates itself with a network of 80+ offices in over 25 countries, a client roster of blue-chip brands, and growth through both organic expansion and acquisitions backed by BC Partners. Its goal is to help clients transform their business models and customer experiences at scale in the digital era.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1993

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